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Judd Marmor's collected essays exemplify the skills and wisdom of a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Having been trained at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, he has developed and constantly modified his thinking through the years so that one can trace the growth of a true scientist in psychoanalysis. Since his graduation from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933, his experience as a student of dynamic psychiatry, therapist, teacher and administrator of the Division of Psychiatry at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his career has been capped by being appointed the First Franz Alexander Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.
This collection of essays demonstrates the maturation of a psychoanalyst over the past 40 years that underscores the most desirable and admirable features of the best psychoanalytic theoreticians and practitioners. The articles range from purely theoretical ones that deal with some of Dr. Marmor's early involvement in psychoanalytic theory, to the more sophisticated analyses of the relationship of psychoanalysis to behavioral therapy and to a variety of newer therapeutic approaches which were developing during his professional lifetime. In addition, some of the major dynamic contributions which relate to sexuality of both the female and of homosexuality were laid down in some of the earlier papers which can be read at this time as fresh, novel, and innovative. It was Judd Marmor who made some of the earliest inroads in the fallacious concepts that psychoanalysis clung to with regard to cultural influences.
His early papers deal with theory as well as the relationship of psychoanalysis to the social scene and his paper on “Psychoanalysis and Dialectical Materialism” is an analysis of the Marxian view which is as valid today as when it was written in 1949. The social orientation was apparent early in his writing and this point of view enabled him to balance the